I actually got BG3 as a gift from a fellow Codexer, but it was unbearable to play for long. Frankly I am not a fan of Dragon Age style of games (cinematic dialogue, voice acting, annoying companions, etc.) which I predicted BG3 will turn out to be. What was particularly sad was the paper thin ruleset. For example, picking different races offered very little distinction in terms of rules, etc. It is frankly unacceptable for a computer role playing game. System wise something like KotC 2 Hearkenwold is light years ahead. I don't care about your production value.
Yes, also the story is pretty average at best and full of cringe-worthy stuff even aside the political stuff.
Additionally, the "choice and consequences" are not really remarkable at all. It's nothing we have not seen before, a Kotor 2, Arcanum or fallout has way better C&C.
Even if were to pretend it's an actually good game (which I don't think it is) all the talk about it innovating or redefining stuff is completely baseless.
I think a lot of people still pretending it has some revolutionary C&C, is just sunk cost fallacy in action. Most of the dudes saying this, are the usual suspects who were repeating that PR shit endlessly for 2 years and hundreds of pages, while the game was still in beta. As I said before, I get why they fell for it, beta had a lot of choices, and it looked like they would result in a massively different outcomes in the full version, and if you're a sucker for corpo promises, you could easily believe that.
After actually seeing the full game, the illusion of choice very quickly falls apart on closer inspection, but it's not surprising that people who spend multiple years being Larian shills for free based on Swen's promises, would rather deny reality and pretend the game is actually groundbreaking, than admit they were acting retarded and bought into the hype like 10IQ consoomer normies.
